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Who Will Be the Winners and Losers in Asset Management in 2022?
Away From Bubbles and Vanity Investments, Is Africa Now the Sensible Choice for Investors?
Date: February 15, 2022
By Martin Soderberg, Managing Partner, SPEAR Capital To say that the past couple of years have been eventful from an investor perspective would be a massive understatement. On the back of the pandemic and its attendant supply chain issues, markets crashed, rebounded, and crashed again. Meme stocks, such as Gamestop and AMC, shot through the...
ESG Through a Data Science Lens
Date: February 15, 2022
For institutional investors with ESG goals, data is the name of the game. But with inconsistent data sets, no unified evaluation methodologies and a lack of global standards, investors can struggle to gather insights into portfolios. Data science can help make that easier. By Paul Fahey, Head of Investment Data Science, Northern Trust Across the...
Stock Market Performances in 2021: Pharmaceutical Stocks Performed Well, Travel Stocks Took a Hit
Date: February 15, 2022
By Dáire Ferguson, CEO at AvaTrade Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic nearly two years ago, financial markets have experienced levels of volatility which are at near unprecedented levels. Rising inflation, increased interest rates and further disruption to the supply chain fuelled this stock market volatility. As such, it’s worth taking a deep dive...
L’Oreal Shares Slip as Marketing Spending Weighs on Margins
Date: February 11, 2022
PARIS (Reuters) -Shares in the world’s largest cosmetics company L’Oreal dropped on Thursday as higher marketing spending put pressure on profitability, overshadowing forecast-beating sales and gains in market share. The company’s spending on advertising and promotions, closely watched by investors, grew over the second half of the year. That weighed on the annual operating margin which...
Bosch CEO Expects Chip Shortage to Ease, Hopes for Return to Normal by 2023
Date: February 11, 2022
BERLIN (Reuters) – Bosch CEO Stefan Hartung expects the chip shortage to lessen significantly in the second half of this year, he said at a press conference on Wednesday, adding he hoped businesses could operate as normal by 2023. The world’s largest autos supplier must boost its software capabilities while limiting redundancies among the 80,000-odd...
Britain Sets Out post-Brexit Blueprint for Investment Funds Sector
Date: February 11, 2022
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s finance ministry set out its stall on Thursday for reforming the 11 trillion pound ($15 trillion) investment funds sector following Brexit, saying it will simplify how the industry is taxed. Britain is a global centre for managing funds, but many of them are listed in EU centres such as Luxembourg...